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Cooking up some magic realism Director Alfonso Arau mixes love and "Chocolate"
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In "Like Water for Chocolate," the new film based on the
best-selling novel of the same name by Mexican writer Laura Esquivel,
food is an instrument of love, the kitchen a crossroads of deep
mysteries and everyday life, cooking a sensual alchemy.
"Do I cook?" responds director Alfonso Arau, Esquivel's husband.
He looks up from his plate, caught in mid-motion, and in one gesture
puts down his fork and knife, discreetly touches the corners of his
mouth and raises his hands to his chest, ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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Garcia Marquez' magical memoir of youth
Chicago Sun-Times
; Living to Tell the Tale By Gabriel Garcia Marquez Knopf. $26.95. Early in Living to Tell the Tale, the first of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's planned three-volume autobiography, the esteemed Colombian- born novelist lauds the work of a writer "whose prose was so amiable he could convince the reader that
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Swimming in magic realism
The Spectator
; GOULD'S BOOK OF FISH: A NOVEL IN TWELVE FISH by Richard Flanagan Atlantic, 16.99, pp. 404, ISBN 1843540215 D. J. Taylor First things first. The winner of this year's Commonwealth Writers' Prize, compared by the critic in the New York Times to, let us see, Sterne, Joyce, Melville and Garcia Marquez,
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 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Locals aim to transform Nobel writer's town into tourist destination.(Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; Byline: Gary Marx ARACATACA, Colombia _ Gabriel Garcia Marquez is Latin America's greatest living writer, a man of startling originality whose magical realism style of prose earned him the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature. He is arguably Colombia's most famous citizen, but you'd never know it from
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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The Saturday Profile: GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: Love, passion and a melancholy man:.(Comment)
The Independent (London, England)
; ... 10 years. Indeed, many people were afraid that his 1994 offering Of Love and Other Demons might be his last, particularly when news got out in 1999 that the writer was suffering from lymphatic cancer and was making regular trips to California for treatment ...
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Memoir of Mexican author Garcia Marquez causes bibliophile frenzy.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ... sailors. It wasn't the best time to dream. I was advised to leave Colombia, he writes. Today, Garcia Marquez continues writing news columns and is on the board of directors of Mexican weekly magazine Cambio , or Change. ___ (c) 2002, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information ...
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